episcopate
Example Sentences
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The Polish episcopate and local bishop acknowledged the burning, but declined to comment, AFP reported.
From Fox News
The letter, dated Jan. 1, is Pope Francis’ most explicit acknowledgment yet of the tensions between him and the U.S. episcopate.
It was painful, he wrote, to watch “an episcopate lacking in unity and concentrated more on pointing fingers than on seeking paths of reconciliation.”
From Los Angeles Times
He said Orthodox unity could be preserved only through the “resistance of our people, our clergy, our episcopate, to every mean trick, to every heresy, to every schism”.
From Reuters
The Polish episcopate has remained silent throughout the controversy, although some individual bishops have attempted to address the issue head on.
From The Guardian
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